Monarch names - do other countries do this?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
It is done, sometimes. We could adress to English kings as Karl VIXIXII but also the Charles version of it, it doesn't really matter. Nowadays, most people use the original name for it though, but sometiems names do still get transferred into German.

I know the Roman number thing is messed up, Iwas merely making fun of the amount of Charles' in England.

There have only been 2, so far.

[Ecthy]

We've been through that, KH. RTFT.

[KrazyHorse]

Too lazy.

[KrazyHorse]

They chopped off the second one's head. That's why kings in England don't take that name when they accede to the throne.

[notyoueither]

Is it true that Finnish is the only language in the region that is not even remotely related to the Indo-European family?

Where did it come from?

[KrazyHorse]

Related to Hungarian. Came from the East.

[notyoueither]

Oh. I thought some place more exotic.

[KrazyHorse]

Pretty exotic. Barbarian hordes and all...

[KrazyHorse]

[notyoueither]

Oh. So it isn't the only non related language in the area. Damn profs. Can't trust a one of em.

However, I was think a wee bit more exotic. Are you sure they couldn't have influenced that tree to blend in better? Notice that the Finnish branch is the highest point.

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by notyoueither
Oh. So it isn't the only non related language in the area. Damn profs. Can't trust a one of em.

However, I was think a wee bit more exotic. Are you sure they couldn't have influenced that tree to blend in better? Notice that the Finnish branch is the highest point.

Tee-hee, somehow I think it's funny that some professors can't get right stuff that's teached to fifteen year olds. Of course, it's 7 AM, in the night if you get my drift, and tablespoons looks like a bloody funny concept at this point.

Influenced? Us? By all means, no. Actually, Finnish comes from the planet Mikälie, from the solar system of Hemmetti some thirtythree lightyears away.

The Estonian and Finnish languages are btw quite identical, we can roughly understand each other even if we haven't studied the language one bit. But Finnish has gotten much more influence from Indo-European languages then other Ugric languages, methinks. Even from the Slavic ones.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
Victor Galis is Romanian? I thought he was a German who moved to Canada at the age of 5.

Felch - OK, not a problem. If Siro wants to do some practising as well (and Taurus finally returns ), we can open a course

OOOOH, me too, I am quite eager to learn German.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
They chopped off the second one's head. That's why kings in England don't take that name when they accede to the throne.

Nope, they chopped off the first one's head. The second one came back after Cromwell died and took charge again.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
Influenced? Us? By all means, no. Actually, Finnish comes from the planet Mikälie, from the solar system of Hemmetti some thirtythree lightyears away.

The Estonian and Finnish languages are btw quite identical, we can roughly understand each other even if we haven't studied the language one bit.

My guess was Andromeda, but close enough from my perspective.

Oh, BTW, you should have gone to sleep. Now you've disclosed that the Estonians are your (probably less) evil twins in your diabolical plans for colonization.

[ranskaldan]

Originally posted by notyoueither
Notice that the Finnish branch is the highest point.

That's because that branch is too crowded, and so it had to be puffed up a little bit to fit all those teeny-weeny little languages in, Finnish included .

I never figured out the one thousand and one ways Westerners pronounce Chinese names anyway. Once in Paris, this old guy kept going on and on about a very large Chinese city called "Shong-gayee", and acted extremely surprised when it appeared I'd never heard of it in my life. It took me quite a while to figure out that it was actually Shanghai.